Implant-supported restorations: course from A to Z for prosthodontists

– Unloading healing, early loading, immediate loading for single and two-unit implant restorations

– Problems caused by disability of edentulism:

- fracture

- facial contours

- social activities.

– Implant treatment: advantages

– Traditional loading protocols: 

- extra and intraoral examination

- treatment planning.

– Single-stage implant treatment protocol.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Immediate non-occlusal loading (INOL):

- benefits

- INOL restorations

- inclusion/exclusion criteria.

– Angled implants: indications 

– Screw-retained provisional crowns

– Immediate occlusal loading (IOL)

– Treatment planning for patients with periodontal diseases

– Fixed solutions for edentulous patients

– All-on-4 protocol: literature review

– Laboratory and surgical collaboration, appointment sequencing, and identifying the required implant components to have on hand for each protocol and procedure

– Specific diets, oral hygiene and maintenance procedures for each loading protocol.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Identify patients who warrant this type of treatment including long-term edentulous patients, patients with chronic moderate/severe periodontitis and patients with severe caries

– Advantages of immediate occlusal loading including function, aesthetics, improved self-image and self-confidence

– Anatomic and radiographic findings that clinicians need to know prior to treatment planning full-arch treatments

– Treatment options for severe periodontitis

– Full-arch immediate occlusal loading concept overwiev

– Fixed solutions for edentulous patients

– Indications and contraindications for immediate occlusal loading

– All-on-4 protocol.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Consideration for choosing an immediate occlusal loading protocol

– Requirements for immediate implant prosthesis 

– Prosthodontic procedures needed in order to fabricate the immediate full-arch prostheses

– Surgical parameters required in order to successfully treat patients with full-arch immediate restorations

– Abutment selection

– Post-operative diet and follow-up appointments.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Troubleshoot problems associated with long-term, full-arch, implant prostheses

– Implant prosthetic complications:

- stripped screws 

- denture base

- fractured frameworks.

– Requirements for optimal implant framework design

– Generic prosthetiс options: fixed, removable (rigin), removable (non-rigin)

– Bar design considerations

– Fixed milled titanium frameworks

– I Beam design, L Beam design.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Design full-arch frameworks using evidenced-based parameters:

- metal design

- retentive elements

- prosthesis type

- cantilever length.

– Design considerations for fixed hybrid prostheses

– Clinical case analysis:

- abutment level impressions

- wax dentures for scanning

- 3D design

- framework try-in.

– Definitive prostheses

– Bar-supported overdentures

– Common prosthodontic complications and how to problem-solve them.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Diagnosis and treatment planning for full-arch, immediate occlusal loading

– Osseointegration

– Fixed or removable dentures: decision making algorithm

– Two basic pre-operative requirements

– Fixed hybrid prosthesis: indications

– Implant-supported fixed protheses: clinical case analysis.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.

– Full-arch immediate occlusal loading concept overwiev

– Fixed solutions for edentulous patients

– Clinical presentation: maxillary and mandibulary All-on-4 protocol:

- treatment plan

- impression and casts

- smile line and VDO

- arbitrary set up.

– Communicating with implant surgeons and dental laboratory technicians regarding full-arch treatment

– Smart denture conversion: benefits and limitations

– Accelerated treatment protocol to fabricate definitive prostheses in as few as 3 appointments

– Digital workflows for fabrication of definitive full-arch prostheses.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists.